Large Fierce Mammal

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“… Human habitations are not an environment apart – they are filters, carefully engineered  to ensure that, insofar as possible, the species that built them can limit access to animals of its own kind or those of other kinds it has invited to be there, and to plants that it wishes to grow there. Humans are not alone in this behaviour – Ants, Bees, and other social insects have them too.

“But we Humans are not insects, so let’s confine our thinking to the filters that Man builds. Ask the microscopic creatures that live, die, mate, eat and are eaten, in their multitudes, generation after generation between a half millimeter by twenty centimeter crack under your kitchen floor boards how perfect and impermeable that filter is. The Moulds and Mildews that make their presence known whenever circumstances permit. The Silverfish that haunt your plumbing and bookshelves, the carpet beetle under your baseboards, and the Pseudoscorpion that hunts them. The Spiders, Woodlice, Centipedes, and Millipedes that lurk in every dark basement corner – all doing their jobs as Nature intended them to do, within the ecosystem you call your dwelling, and that you share with them.” ~ Worldly Wisdom Wednesday – That First Step on The Path

Tonight’s Dark Sentiment, Splat, is a short (2 minutes and 45 seconds) horror film by Social House Films, “… an independent production studio operated by Aaron Fradkin and Victoria Fratz, focusing on original feature films, short films, & music videos.“ Not only did it bring to mind my words from the summer of 2012 as aforesaid, but also this ditty from Dark Sentiments Season 10 — Day 23: Dead Spider Serenade (click the link to read the lyrics, the play button below to suffer through hearing me sing it):

Both stand as reminders that everything has a purpose, time, and place for it, and unless something may injure, sicken, or even kill you, it can normally be either left alone or relocated at no peril whatsoever. Naturally there is a limit to everything, and if you find yourself dealing with something large enough to move the furniture then a doffing of the kid gloves may be in order. If you are a regular here you’ll know what to do.

Directed and edited by Aaron Fradkin and starring Victoria Fratz, Splat is somewhat predictable but no less well crafted and enjoyable for that. Pour a shot of your favourite venom big enough to last the whole two minutes and forty-five seconds, get comfortable, and hoe to it.